One story tells it all…

We outlined a few areas where Dorchester there is obvious inequity to the level of services delivered to Dorchester. Here’s my favorite story about how Dotites get lip service from the City. One of the Mayor’s prior Transportation Directors (Whatever that Tim guy is) was at a local meeting where the neighborhood group was proposing traffic calming methods for a street was was plagued by speeding cut through traffic. I suggested speed bumps (ultimately 5 years later we did get stop signs) and I received this response…”Oh we’d NEVER put a speed bump in, there aren’t ANY speed bumps in Boston.” I offered him an opportunity to correct himself to which he demurred and repeated his statement…So I asked him, “Since when has Eliot Street, Lochstead Road and Sheridan Street in Jamaica Plain secede (sp?) from the City of Boston?” Then his story got even bigger, but that wasn’t the point. What? Did the guy think I never leave Dorchester? This isn’t the first or last time I got the ‘we don’t do that here’ line only to know first hand of the exception… So don’t think that Dotbikers don’t see all the improvements elsewhere while NOTHING has happened in 2 years to improve bicycling infrastructure in Dot outside of 50 yards on Old Road…

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